Meaning of get got | Babel Free

Definitions

To get taken or apprehended; to get beaten or defeated; to be vanquished or come to some form of demise.

slang

Examples

“In prison I knew I had to make the first move or else I'd be gettin' got.”

“Did you hear about Christian? I heard he got got by Sarah.”

“And the kind of man you can hire isn't as keen on getting a man as the man himself is on not getting 'got'—that's where the chance is, sometimes, to pull out better than even.”

“Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.”

“"He can weasel out if^([sic]) it." Ibanez massaged her knuckles. "He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch."”

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